Teachers’ Current Technological Challenges and Expectations for Futuristic Learning in a Knowledge-Based Economy

Abstract

What is permanent in this world is change. The world is on the move and technology is affecting every aspect of life and the education sector is not left behind. Presently, the education sector is going through several changes, and the old-fashioned technique of teaching-learning is no longer suitable for the digital and/or knowledge-based society. Student enrolment rate is constantly on the increase on daily basis. Consequently, future education needs digitally skilled teachers to respond to the futuristic pedagogy that will respond to the learning needs of 21st-century generation students. Futuristic education is a type of modern teaching-learning that will encourage classroom engagement and enlargement, and learning for students to use modern or technological approaches to instruction in educational institutions that will facilitate students’ intellectual, social, and emotional development. This study reviewed some vital literature, reviewing some scholarly publications on the topic by x-raying vital contributions made by various researchers and/or scholars, and institutions. The paper correspondingly attempts to identify current teachers’ challenges that will hinder the future teaching-learning process, and offer possible suggestions that will meet the future needs of higher education, particularly in the Nigerian context. The significance of the study is to remind teachers to build their technological skills for futuristic teaching- learning by using technologies effectively, and also offer them the opportunities to address the present challenges confronting the modern teaching approach to effectively organize how students’ engagement will be carried out in the future, with the hope of providing quality education for all learners.